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Our lawyers are investigating potential malpractice and products liability lawsuits stemming from the fungal meningitis outbreak occurring in Tennessee. The suspected contamination of a popular steroid injection manufactured by a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy has led to an outbreak of a rare form of fungal meningitis across the United States, with Nashville and Middle Tennessee suffering the greatest number of cases....
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According to medical professionals in Michigan, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may be used to spot fungal infections caused by the tainted steroid injections that led to last year's deadly meningitis outbreak. The researchers published their findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association on June 19, as a result of tests that were conducted to help deal with the...
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An 86-year-old Nashville woman has filed a lawsuit against Saint Thomas Outpatient Neurosurgical Center and the Howell Allen Clinic over an illness she claims was caused by two injections of a tainted spinal steroid she received at the outpatient center. In a complaint filed earlier this month in Davidson County Circuit Court, Virginia Neely said she was referred to the...
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Yet another new case of fungal meningitis in Tennessee was reported on Sunday, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), bringing the total number of illnesses in the state to 53, with six deaths so far. The deadly fungal meningitis outbreak has been tied to steroid shots manufactured by the Massachusetts-based New England Compounding Center (NECC)...
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Widespread panic has resulted from a recent steroid injection recall by a compounding facility in Massachusetts, believed to have distributed 17,676 vials of potentially contaminated medication to 75 pain clinics in 23 U.S. states, including Tennessee. New England Compounding Center (NECC) and federal drug regulators believe that the epidural injection manufactured by the compounding pharmacy somehow became tainted by aspergillius,...
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Michael D. Ponce & Associates are investigating potential malpractice and products liability lawsuits stemming from the fungal meningitis outbreak which has been tied to steroid (methylprednisolone acetate) injections administered to patients for chronic back pain at Saint Thomas Outpatient Neurosurgery Center, and which was compounded by the New England Compounding Center (NECC) in Massachusetts. (more…)
